Italian-born photographer Tina Modotti (1896-1942) worked in Mexico between 1923 and 1930, a period known as the Mexican Renaissance. A member of the Communist Party, Modotti not only pioneered modernist photography in Mexico but also used her images as tools for constructing Mexican cultural nationalism and...

By Linda Buchwald
“What attracted me to the role was that I couldn’t get an audition.” So says Alysia Reiner about playing photographer/actress/political activist Tina Modotti in the new off-Broadway play,
Modotti.
Of course, to see her in the show, now playing at Theatre Row through July 3, you’d...